LilyPad in the wild: How hardware's long tail is supporting new engineering and design communities

DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-207

  Buechley, Leah ^a   Hill, Benjamin Mako ^b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arduino; e textiles; electronic textiles; LilyPad; long tail; open source hardware; wearable computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149342483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1858171.1858206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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